Clark Poling (a Dutch Reformed minister), George Fox (a Methodist minister), Alexander Goode (a Jewish rabbi), and John Washington (a Catholic priest) became fast friends in 1942 while attending a training school for Chaplains at Harvard College. In January 1943 all four men embarked for England together on the Dorchester, a converted transport ship carrying 900 sailors.

Liviu Librescu had faced death many times before his final hour of life on the campus of Virginia Tech University. He had survived the Nazis, the Holocaust, and relocation to a labor camp. And he had endured over thirty years of Communist oppression in his native Romania. In between, he’d earned a Ph.D., and become a scientist and research professor.

Benedict Joseph Labre lived in pre-revolution France, struggled with mental illness virtually his entire life, failed each of the eleven times he tried to enter religious life, lost touch with his family, lived as a homeless person for his adult years, survived on what he could collect as a beggar, and died of malnutrition at 35 years-old.

Heroes you should know: Iqbal Masih“I would like to do what Abraham Lincoln did… I would like to do it in Pakistan."
-Iqbal Masih
Iqbal Masih (b. 1983 - April 16, 1995) was a Pakistani boy cast into bondage at age four because of his family’s inability to repay a debt, but through extraordinary courage and perseverance became an international symbol for the dignity of children and a martyr for justice---all by the tender age of twelve.